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The RC7500 (PID-7500)

A Computer Workstation and Development Board for the ARM7500

The RC7500 is a fully equipped computer board designed to aid ARM developers to generate software and hardware applications for the ARM7500 and other ARM based products. The RC7500 encorporates an Advanced RISC Machine CPU with Cache and MMU, including integrated peripherals, with addedd PC Combo I/O and Ethernet chips. Program development is aided by encorporation of a dedicated logic analyzer connector. The logic analyzer can be used monitor the ARM instructions for rapid software debug and can be triggered by a software breakpoint.

The RC7500 is made for the ARM users will be generating designs and writing code for embedded applications which include human interaction, such as video games, set top controllers, portable and desktop instumentation....

The RC7500 series development boards are expected to aid software and hardware developers in generating their own applications and hardware. the initial operating environment is to be monitor based with an expected progression to a real time multitasking operating system.

• PROCESSOR

ARM704 32 bit RISC CPU Core with
4 K Bytes Cache and Object Oriented MMU

• MEMORY CONTROLLER

32 or 16 bit DRAM and ROM Memory Interface
Fast Page DRAM controller
Large ROM space with burst mode

• INTERRUPT CONTROLLER

8 FIQ (Fast Interrupts)
24 IRQ (Normal Interrupts)

• TIMERS

2 16 bit Timers

• PERIPHERAL INTERFACE

16 bit IO Bus to peripherals
Progammable wait states with ready pin
Pseudo DMA for support of DMA peripherals

• RGB VIDEO INTERFACE

Supports CGA to Super VGA CRTs
Internal tripple 8 bit video DAC
Completely programmable Display Parameters
Support for local VCO for pixel clock

• LCD INTERFACE

Supports Color and Greyscale pannels
Completely programmable Display Parameters
Support for split panels

• KEYBOARD and MOUSE INTERFACE

Supports standard "AT" and PS/2 Keyboards
Supports PS/2 Mouse

• JOYSTICK INTERFACE

Supports standard PC variable resistor joystick
Can be used as 4 general purpose timers

• SOUND INTERFACE

Supports standard external CD D/A (TDA1545)
Has internal 8 bit companded D/A

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RC7500 BOARD FEATURES

• MAIN MEMORY

1,4,16 MByte memory with 256K, 1M, 4Mx8 bit DRAM SIMMs

• ROM

(128K to 4 MB) EPROM - 4x 27C256 to 4x 27C080

• COMUNICATIONS

2 RS-232 serial ports
Centronics printer port
10BaseT Ethernet

• ARM7500 PERIPHERALS

VGA and LCD
Joystick
10BaseT Ethernet

• EXTRA PERIPHERALS

2 RS-232 serial ports
Centronics printer port
Floppy COntroller to 2.88 Mbytes
2 IDE interfaces (Hard Disk and CD-ROM)
10BaseT Ethernet

• EXPANSION

PC "AT" Style connector
16 bit data, 4Mbyte Address, Dual row connector

• OPERATING SYSTEMs
• C-DEMON ROM Monitor
  
• BSD is available on an IDE hard disk

Ordering Information

Board Name VY86PID-7500

The RC7500 block Diagram

RC7500 Mounted in small PC workstation case

More Infomation on the RC7500
including Schematics.

Screen shot take from RC7500 running RiscBSD These pages are maintained by Art Sobel (sobellinni@hotmail.com) OR Art Sobel (sobellinni@yahoo.com) Contact me if you have questions, problems or suggestions.

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